Nodejistu, are shutting down and I have a heap of web apps that I need to

find new homes for

so, over the last few weeks I've been looking into

all of the different cloud hosts on the market trying to find the right

fit for some of the apps that I have I'm looking for something that's really light touch

something that I don't need to worry about too much and I stumbled across

Azure, well I've heard about it before but I haven't really used it myself

up until a few weeks ago what I found, what was pretty cool is

Azure have, or Microsoft has a Biz Spark program

so if you're like me if you run a startup you can actually get

on this program, it takes about a week or so to get

approved for it and once you're approved you've got

two or three years of access to

a heap of Microsoft products plus

you get credit monthly credit

to use for Azure, so that's really cool

because it means that you can actually try out proper production

based servers for your app and actually use that as you're growing

a startup or even a side project idea

So I do have one of these accounts and a few weeks ago I actually

hosted an app up on Azure

and it actually has been fine in the time that it's been up which has been pretty cool

so

today I just wanted to just go through a really quick

introduction to what Azure is all about

and how you can host your MEAN Stack, or any Node, or any kind of web app up on Azure.

This one is actually a really good host for someone

who may not be all that comfortable or all that confident using the command

line

because you can pretty much get everything

up and running without using any command line which is a little bit different to

some of the other web hosts we've

looked at in the videos that I've covered so far

without any further ado let's jump in so this is the one app that I've actually

previously created so theres not

too much exciting going on here I just need to jump down and click on the NEW button at the bottom

it selects Compute and Web App for me which is great that's what I want

there's a couple options you can use you can do a quick create

which means there are a couple of other options that you have, but you can set them up later

or we can to go down the custom create which is actually

something that I'm going to do now because it actually lets me set up my continuous

deployment from source control and what

that means is that - say you are working on

your project and you want to

back it up and you're using Git and you want to push that through your source

control. You might be using

GitHub to save that and or you might using be using Bitbucket

or any of those kind of tools what you can do here is hook straight into that

you don't have to push code directly to Azure

you can just push it to GitHub or Bitbucket or

any of those kinda things, and it will just suck it all up and

make that available for you we're going to start off with

a url that's available, I'm just going to see if thats

available there and it's already defaulted

my service plan, my subscription. I don't want a database, if you're using

an SQL database you can select that

for a MeanJS based product I don't need one of those

I'm going to choose this little checkbox down the bottom

which is publish from source control once I've done that just click Next

what that did do by the way, it just added a second page here, so it means that when I click the arrow

it's going to go across to the next

page which is cool, so you can then

identify

or tell this wizard process where your source code is actually

sitting say it's on

like Dropbox you can even grab it straight from there

which is pretty cool. Mine is in Bitbucket, so I'm going to tell it that

that's where it is, and just click on the next button

this is going to authorise with Bithbucket. Because I have an app already

it has already got my details and it's gone ahead and

used those to authenticate

if you're doing this for the first time you will have to obviously put in

your username and password to make sure that your authentication works

I'm just going to select a repo name

for the repo that I want and thats

pretty much it. So fingers crossed and let's see how this goes

the deployment process is actually fairly straightforward like there's only

pretty much what we've just done but so far

I've had a couple of issues with not everything quite working

straight-away I'm just going to see how we go, so

it always makes me a little bit

anxious when things happen so fast cos it feels like something may have

failed somewhere along the line which is why it's so quick so let's have a look

I'm going to just have a quick look at the deployment

information about the deployment I should say

okay so looks like it's still deploying, so it's probably set up the web app

or the base

place to put the app first and now it's going through and actually

and grabbing everything it needs from Bitbucket

and hopefully deploying all of that code

awesome, so once

your deployment is complete

it should show up as active deployment, it should show

some details of your last commit, whatever you did last

It seems to have an issue with the .NET Framework

which is really weird because it's a Microsoft Server!

It's installed all the bower packages

So it seems like the issue is that .NET bit, so let's see if I can do something about that

so it should have the most recent version. What I'm going to do is just restart it

see if there's just a problem with how it has been set up

Try that

Excellent, there we go

so that's my app and it's up and running now. It was a very quick and easy

process if you had an issue in the same way did I did

and just try and restart and see if that fixes it for you

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